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- From: ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
- Subject: Re: accelerators for SEs
- Message-ID: <ellens-201192125044@47.220.2.151>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <1992Nov16.203028.8317@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <parkyn.721966438@sfu.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:51:32 GMT
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- In article <parkyn.721966438@sfu.ca>, parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
- wrote:
- >
- > NewLife accelerator can be ordered without the FPU. The 25MHz
- > SE can be mail ordered, check the magazine ads. The only negative
- > was reduced HD access rating. About 35% of the original performance
- > according Speedometer's rating. Changing interleave made no improvements.
- >
- > Curious to know if anyone else had this problem...
-
- Interesting. I didn't check the speed of my SE before adding the NewLife25,
- but I have noticed that the performance of the internal drive (Cirrus 20M)
- is lousy. The best results are with interleave set to 2. I also have a
- couple
- CDC 160M drives attached which run a lot faster.
-
- Chris Ellens / My Canada includes: Every bitching, whining /
- ellens@bnr.ca / province, aboriginal, feminist, minority, and /
- / special interest group. /
-